If you have any desire to use a chromeless player instead of the default one with YouTube controls, you can get around this limitation by listening for events on your custom scrubber ... as a simple example, jQuery UI's slider can be set up as a scrubber for a chromeless player and report the "seek" state by using the 'start,' 'stop,' and 'slide' events.

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